> The performa series was an attempt at making Apple systems to > compete with the PC's of the time. A few were pretty good, > but there were some pigs too. In the final analysis what > Apple produced in an attempt to market cheap computers, > was... well... cheap computers! Good riddance I say! I'll pay > the extra for premium parts.
Indeed - they were not well constructed, but often they were differentiated not just by price and poorly performing subsystems but with the included software. In the mid 90s I was directly involved with several of those pre-installed licensing deals with Apple. Sadly, in that OS 8.x era, Apple began copying features from third party products into the OS, even ones from products Apple bundled. Marketshare shrank terribly. Vendors took huge risks on technologies that were later killed off (hellooooo OpenDoc!). Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
